A few days ago I read a news in Times of India -
The Bollywood actor and model, Milind Soman just made the country proud by successfully completing the Ironman Triathlon held in Zurich, Switzerland on 19 July.
Milind Soman has similarity with English actor Jason Statham. Both are fitness enthusiast, both love water, both were spotted by advertising agencies while practicing in water, Milind Soman was national level swimmer while Jason Statham was national diver. And that's how they entered modelling, and later became supermodels and actors. In both cases the advertising agency person liked the attitude towards life Milind and Jason has. Both embraced the fitness for life. And one more similarity is, I have utmost respect for both. (we will have a post on Jason Statham soon.)
This particular triathlon is one of the world's toughest races. The triathlon includes a 3.8-km swim, a 180.2-km cycle ride and 42.2-km run raced in that order without a break which the participants are required to complete within 16 hours to win the title of 'Ironman'.
My favourite childhood hero, 50-year old Milind Soman completed the triathlon in 15 hours and 19 minutes.
"If you are sufficiently aware and monitor your body's response at every stage in terms of nutrition and pace, it will all come together. I wanted to gift myself something special in my 50th year and I am glad I could do this," Milind expressed his feelings to The Indian Express on phone from Zurich.
You can imagine, completing the course of race wasn't an easy task, it was test of physical as well as mental strength. You have to master your body, constantly fight the urge to stop, and keep going.
Milind Soman is an example of real life hero. Think about if you are able to do this even in 2-3 days time limit.
Don't worry, I am not saying I can but with sufficient training and will power anyone can.
So this is how my day started but as I reached my office I met my friend Ajit, he was coughing. I asked, "Hi Ajit, what happened to you?" He replied, "My throat is aching, I don't know why? I didn't do anything unusual, rather I take very good care of myself, don't know still how did this happened." (by saying good care of myself, he implied towards, not going out, staying away from cold breezes, wearing sweaters etc.)
So here my day started with a news about a 50 year old Ironman and now accompanied by Ajit. ๐ All my thought process now got diverted towards this paradox, how one man at his 50 enjoys a good health and other at 28 crying for doctor? The 50 year old guy is physically younger than 28 year old guy.
Ajit was clueless about what is happening to him, and he was thinking to visit a doctor in the evening.
A lot of people have the same experience or must have seen people like Ajit.
The mistake Ajit did was he always tried to maintain a life with little movement to the body or little exposure to the natural things like cold breeze in winter or going out in hot summer afternoon etc. He thought he is taking care of his body.
But the reality is exactly opposite of what he is thinking.
To understand how the reality is opposite, and the difference between Milind and Ajit, Let's dive deep in to the science of our body.
You must have read my previous post on ageing and anti-ageing. If not then you can read it here.
So now you have some basic knowledge about what is ageing. Now I am going to take you still deeper, so stay with me, read slowly and understand what I am telling, we are not in a hurry.
Our body is made up of tiny cells, every organ we possess is made up of these tiny cells. These tiny cells have their life cycle. Every second, many tiny cells are borne and many tiny cells die. The new borne cells replace those who died. The process of death of cells or breakdown is called as Catabolism while that of birth and growth of new cells is called as Anabolism.
Anabolism and Catabolism are together called as Metabolism.
Birth or growth or repair ➡ Anabolism
Death or breakdown ➡ Catabolism
Anabolism ➕ Catabolism ➡ Metabolism
Remember these concepts, you'll often hear it or read it while studying the subject of health, nutrition, exercise, ageing, anti-ageing, sports training, strength training, sports nutrition etc.
So when Catabolism is higher than Anabolism, we age. That is our body loses muscles and bones.(loses bones means, the bone density reduces, bones becomes more brittle) To reverse the ageing process we must increase the rate of Anabolism.
The question is how?
First let's understand the situation of Ajit just mentioned above.
To understand his condition just know what our body is. To define our body in just three words-
Our body is- A Complex Adaptive System.
Though the definition contains the word Complex, there is nothing complex in this definition. Let's understand the simple meaning of this definition word by word -
Complex - there are many systems like blood circulation, muscles plus bones, brain, digestive system, temperature regulation through skin, breathing, excretory system, resistance system etc. are working together, therefore our body is complex.
Adaptive - our body changes itself to adjust with the surroundings or the movements it has to do. For example, we sweat in the hot atmosphere to lose excess body heat or we shiver in the cold to produce heat, or our muscles gradually strengthen when we do hard work repeatedly etc.
System - system is an arrangement of interdependent things to get required results.
So after understanding such an easy definition you must have got it that to become strong you must do hard work, if you sit idle, your body will adapt to sitting idle by reducing it's muscle mass and bone density, also the blood circulation and breathing capacity (together known as stamina) will also get reduced.
Our friend Ajit is sitting idle, therefore he is making himself weak, his anabolism is low, and metabolism is also low. So a weak man like Ajit is unable to resist any infection and just getting out of home without any body protection like sweater, hand gloves, helmet etc. is getting him cough and cold.
Now the question arises,
Is there any chance of Ajit getting out of this condition?
The answer is yes, if he learn the 'Language of Exercise'.
To become strong and reverse the process of ageing Ajit have to increase the rate of Anabolism. He can do it by exercising regularly.
What happens when we exercise?
Exercise in simple terms means giving more load on muscles than normal. This may be done for a particular amount of time or in cycles depending on the type of exercise. When muscles have to deal with more than normal load, muscle fibres break at places because of this higher than normal load. You will say this is the process of Catabolism, it will worsen the condition and make Ajit age faster, but wait, you are partially right. This is the condition of Induced Catabolism, this Induced Catabolism wakes up our body's adaptive nature. The Adaptive nature quickly recognises an unusual condition to which our body is not prepared. So this Adaptive nature encourages the secretion of growth hormone and other hormones in the body which help in Anabolism. Now these hormones make that damaged muscle heal and grow so that when same amount of load is given on the same muscle, the muscle will be able to bear it without or with minimal breakdown.
But there is a delicate balance - our body has limited capacity to heal and grow, depending on the nutrients we are eating and digesting, the rate of Anabolism depends on it, a part of Anabolism is used to repair the damage caused by exercise and rest of the part for growth, so we have to make minimum damage, that is minimum Catabolism to Induce maximum Anabolism. If we inflict lots of damage for quick results, then mostly you will get disappointed by the pain and lack of results.
Don't just blindly go after no pain no gain, which is frequently said by fitness trainers or that extra repetition which is impossible for you. Some things just takes time.
You can't get a baby in one month by making nine women pregnant. Some things just takes time.
- Warren Buffet
Though he said it with respect to compounding and investments, his words are equally applicable in the field of health too.
This process of induced Anabolism lasts for up to 48 hours. So keep sufficient distance between exercising the same muscle. The beauty of this Induced Anabolism process is that, it uses fats as source of energy for the repair and growth, so your fats are being burnt even after you stop exercising.
Remember, in the previous post I said, increase of fats and decrease of muscles is the process of ageing. But here when proper exercise is done, muscles are grown and fats are burnt to repair and grow the muscles. So this process is definitely anti ageing, right?
THIS MY FRIENDS IS THE LANGUAGE OF EXERCISE.
This is how you can reverse your age by inducing Anabolism and automatically reducing fats.
Hope I have contributed something to your knowledge about our own Complex Adaptive System known as Body.
Do ask questions and do give your feedback.
We will meet soon again, till then, Have a Nice and Healthy Day.
Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.
The Bollywood actor and model, Milind Soman just made the country proud by successfully completing the Ironman Triathlon held in Zurich, Switzerland on 19 July.
Milind Soman has similarity with English actor Jason Statham. Both are fitness enthusiast, both love water, both were spotted by advertising agencies while practicing in water, Milind Soman was national level swimmer while Jason Statham was national diver. And that's how they entered modelling, and later became supermodels and actors. In both cases the advertising agency person liked the attitude towards life Milind and Jason has. Both embraced the fitness for life. And one more similarity is, I have utmost respect for both. (we will have a post on Jason Statham soon.)
This particular triathlon is one of the world's toughest races. The triathlon includes a 3.8-km swim, a 180.2-km cycle ride and 42.2-km run raced in that order without a break which the participants are required to complete within 16 hours to win the title of 'Ironman'.
My favourite childhood hero, 50-year old Milind Soman completed the triathlon in 15 hours and 19 minutes.
"If you are sufficiently aware and monitor your body's response at every stage in terms of nutrition and pace, it will all come together. I wanted to gift myself something special in my 50th year and I am glad I could do this," Milind expressed his feelings to The Indian Express on phone from Zurich.
You can imagine, completing the course of race wasn't an easy task, it was test of physical as well as mental strength. You have to master your body, constantly fight the urge to stop, and keep going.
Milind Soman is an example of real life hero. Think about if you are able to do this even in 2-3 days time limit.
Don't worry, I am not saying I can but with sufficient training and will power anyone can.
So this is how my day started but as I reached my office I met my friend Ajit, he was coughing. I asked, "Hi Ajit, what happened to you?" He replied, "My throat is aching, I don't know why? I didn't do anything unusual, rather I take very good care of myself, don't know still how did this happened." (by saying good care of myself, he implied towards, not going out, staying away from cold breezes, wearing sweaters etc.)
So here my day started with a news about a 50 year old Ironman and now accompanied by Ajit. ๐ All my thought process now got diverted towards this paradox, how one man at his 50 enjoys a good health and other at 28 crying for doctor? The 50 year old guy is physically younger than 28 year old guy.
Ajit was clueless about what is happening to him, and he was thinking to visit a doctor in the evening.
A lot of people have the same experience or must have seen people like Ajit.
The mistake Ajit did was he always tried to maintain a life with little movement to the body or little exposure to the natural things like cold breeze in winter or going out in hot summer afternoon etc. He thought he is taking care of his body.
But the reality is exactly opposite of what he is thinking.
To understand how the reality is opposite, and the difference between Milind and Ajit, Let's dive deep in to the science of our body.
You must have read my previous post on ageing and anti-ageing. If not then you can read it here.
So now you have some basic knowledge about what is ageing. Now I am going to take you still deeper, so stay with me, read slowly and understand what I am telling, we are not in a hurry.
Our body is made up of tiny cells, every organ we possess is made up of these tiny cells. These tiny cells have their life cycle. Every second, many tiny cells are borne and many tiny cells die. The new borne cells replace those who died. The process of death of cells or breakdown is called as Catabolism while that of birth and growth of new cells is called as Anabolism.
Anabolism and Catabolism are together called as Metabolism.
Birth or growth or repair ➡ Anabolism
Death or breakdown ➡ Catabolism
Anabolism ➕ Catabolism ➡ Metabolism
Remember these concepts, you'll often hear it or read it while studying the subject of health, nutrition, exercise, ageing, anti-ageing, sports training, strength training, sports nutrition etc.
So when Catabolism is higher than Anabolism, we age. That is our body loses muscles and bones.(loses bones means, the bone density reduces, bones becomes more brittle) To reverse the ageing process we must increase the rate of Anabolism.
The question is how?
First let's understand the situation of Ajit just mentioned above.
To understand his condition just know what our body is. To define our body in just three words-
Our body is- A Complex Adaptive System.
Though the definition contains the word Complex, there is nothing complex in this definition. Let's understand the simple meaning of this definition word by word -
Complex - there are many systems like blood circulation, muscles plus bones, brain, digestive system, temperature regulation through skin, breathing, excretory system, resistance system etc. are working together, therefore our body is complex.
Adaptive - our body changes itself to adjust with the surroundings or the movements it has to do. For example, we sweat in the hot atmosphere to lose excess body heat or we shiver in the cold to produce heat, or our muscles gradually strengthen when we do hard work repeatedly etc.
System - system is an arrangement of interdependent things to get required results.
So after understanding such an easy definition you must have got it that to become strong you must do hard work, if you sit idle, your body will adapt to sitting idle by reducing it's muscle mass and bone density, also the blood circulation and breathing capacity (together known as stamina) will also get reduced.
Our friend Ajit is sitting idle, therefore he is making himself weak, his anabolism is low, and metabolism is also low. So a weak man like Ajit is unable to resist any infection and just getting out of home without any body protection like sweater, hand gloves, helmet etc. is getting him cough and cold.
Now the question arises,
Is there any chance of Ajit getting out of this condition?
The answer is yes, if he learn the 'Language of Exercise'.
To become strong and reverse the process of ageing Ajit have to increase the rate of Anabolism. He can do it by exercising regularly.
What happens when we exercise?
Exercise in simple terms means giving more load on muscles than normal. This may be done for a particular amount of time or in cycles depending on the type of exercise. When muscles have to deal with more than normal load, muscle fibres break at places because of this higher than normal load. You will say this is the process of Catabolism, it will worsen the condition and make Ajit age faster, but wait, you are partially right. This is the condition of Induced Catabolism, this Induced Catabolism wakes up our body's adaptive nature. The Adaptive nature quickly recognises an unusual condition to which our body is not prepared. So this Adaptive nature encourages the secretion of growth hormone and other hormones in the body which help in Anabolism. Now these hormones make that damaged muscle heal and grow so that when same amount of load is given on the same muscle, the muscle will be able to bear it without or with minimal breakdown.
But there is a delicate balance - our body has limited capacity to heal and grow, depending on the nutrients we are eating and digesting, the rate of Anabolism depends on it, a part of Anabolism is used to repair the damage caused by exercise and rest of the part for growth, so we have to make minimum damage, that is minimum Catabolism to Induce maximum Anabolism. If we inflict lots of damage for quick results, then mostly you will get disappointed by the pain and lack of results.
Don't just blindly go after no pain no gain, which is frequently said by fitness trainers or that extra repetition which is impossible for you. Some things just takes time.
You can't get a baby in one month by making nine women pregnant. Some things just takes time.
- Warren Buffet
Though he said it with respect to compounding and investments, his words are equally applicable in the field of health too.
This process of induced Anabolism lasts for up to 48 hours. So keep sufficient distance between exercising the same muscle. The beauty of this Induced Anabolism process is that, it uses fats as source of energy for the repair and growth, so your fats are being burnt even after you stop exercising.
Remember, in the previous post I said, increase of fats and decrease of muscles is the process of ageing. But here when proper exercise is done, muscles are grown and fats are burnt to repair and grow the muscles. So this process is definitely anti ageing, right?
THIS MY FRIENDS IS THE LANGUAGE OF EXERCISE.
This is how you can reverse your age by inducing Anabolism and automatically reducing fats.
Hope I have contributed something to your knowledge about our own Complex Adaptive System known as Body.
Do ask questions and do give your feedback.
We will meet soon again, till then, Have a Nice and Healthy Day.
Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.
